[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.
We're always looking roughly 30 years behind us. In the '80s they were obsessed with the '50s and so on.
After 911, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.
Doesn't matter if it's personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
There are a lot of differing opinions on that. Some people think you should change out more, but I think changing just 20 percent is less stressful on the aquarium and fish. Once you get used to the regimen, it's pretty easy.
It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history repeating itself.
I'm really happiest living life 22 pages at a time and putting things in little boxes on pages.
In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me. ' Was she mad? We had been talking figuratively. Her heart was in her body like mine. I tried to explain this to her, but she took my hand and put it against her chest. Feel for yourself.
It's great to be on a set where there's time and there's focus and there's also a kind of adrenaline thrill on a set where people are saying: "We have to get this shot, we've have to go, we've got to move on!"
It's like the mod thing is happening again.
There is no way I could have ever dared to make a documentary, much less have the money to make a documentary, if it was on 16mm. But, with the magic of digital.